No, but I just checked what is it.

Seems like something similar to Street Fighter

Still, what does that have to do with my comment?

Wasn't that Blizzard and...uhm...lame? I wasn't much of a console player, but I was just...I dunno... pointing out not all Blizzard games are great. Lost Vikings was fun, though. And Blackthorne. Didn't like Warcraft 1 (which came out at the same time as Command and Conquer), but otherwise...yeah, pretty good games. Never played World of Warcraft though. Don't like MMRPGS. Guess it's the same reason I don't like the sims - why have a computer-based life when you can have a real one? Computer games should be about relieving stress and furthering knowledge, not making you feel stupid (like some of the economic simulators that have more facts than gameplay) or stressing you out with real-life scenarios and people that call others 'newbies' as though it's a crime.

The Sims is a really bad social simulator anyway. Quite often talking about ducks then offering woohoo to a girl will get you locked up in an asylum, rather than a chance to make a bed shake for a few seconds. Plus there is the sexual ambiguity of it all. Whilst I have no problem with homosexuallity, not ALL people are bisexual sex-addicts whose sole goals in life are to get the honey-smooch. Even if you choose the knowledge pathway in The Sims 2, eventually your character is going to want to have woohoo and have a family, and, as I've said before, I am going to die miserable and alone. It's better than being with someone and pretending to be happy.

Ahh, well, I really wouldn't know since I didn't play it.

Warcraft Series, StarCraft + Brood War, Diablo I and II..... All great games, but it's development took long enough. Warcraft III took the same time as Oblivion, I think

Anyway, does anybody know what's happening with StarCraft: Ghost? I don't see it in projects window anymore!

Talking about Warcraft aye?

I've only tried out Warcraft III Frozen Throne and World of Warcraft... I most say, even thought how addicting World of Warcraft is and how fun it is, I enjoyed Warcraft III more...

The first thing is that playing against other players is much more fun, and the PvP system in World of Warcraft needs no skills what so ever, all you have to do is push some buttons. While in Warcraft III I just loved to play Solo or 3vs3 games where you always had to work out new tactics, make units with piercing attacks against unarmored units, was great. The community was also very nice...

In World of Warcraft you end up doing quests and such because you want to look good, come up in high level - have a great armor set and a sweet looking weapon and do the major instances.

In Warcraft III it was always different and always fun, unless you played a team game where one or more of you're allies ends up leaving and you are stuck there fighting against two peeps alone, that moment sucks but then again, because it actually requires skills and you ARE good - you manage to win alone against those two... While in World of Warcraft you would have simply got gutted.

I never played WoW, but people who played it told me that it's a really dumb MMO, that takes zero effort and a lot of time to play. Since I'm not looking for that in the game, I'll pass. Blizzard RTS are awesome though. And Diablo is a legend for itself. Sure, a pure hack&slash, but it was fun.

I never played WoW but the people I do know including my manager at work, are hooked on it. it looks alright but I don't generate nough income to support the monthly fees, so therefore I try not to play it and have been succesful thus far.

Warcraft three was great, I still play it form time to time, though not online. I am not a big multiplayer person too many jerks out there that ruin the game. Diablo 2 was perhaps the only exceptions cuz I had my group of friends who I would play with. always was an amazon. never did much melee characters. strife and multishot
and secret cow level. the joy


and one last note about the sims 2. I love custom content. 6,800 files(1.17GB) and growing weekly. that's not including th walls and floors i've d/l O.o

I was obsessed with WoW for some time, but after awhile it just died in me. I don't like being controlled too much and unfortunatly that's what MMOs are all about. The game keeping the character in line. Plus everyone else takes is FAR to seriously, grinding the hell out of everything and trying to make their character a perfect engine of destruction, down to the last attribute point.

I never realy played online games. I've only played lineage 2 and sw galaxies [which was a demo ...] for a wile. But I must say that the graphics are pretty cool and its in fact cool to play with real people instead of some pre-programmed computer figure. But I can't realy get into it, like there is no point in playing the game. The only thing you do is like doing quests and leveling and stuff. But it's not realy something for me I guess. Alltho I realy enjoyed sw galaxies, cos I'm a huge starwars fan.

A friend of mine bought WoW about a month ago, and it has completely taken over his mind. He literally calls me everyday just to ask me when I'm going to buy the game.

I thought about getting it, but when I saw what it did to him, I was like, "No... That will steal my life!"

Seriously.

At this point the only way to save your friend is to toss his copy into the mouth of Mount Doom.

Take away? Than her friend would turn into this.

Yes, exactly my point.

I've thought about it.... several times.

Yo! Just wanted to drop in and say hi cause I'm back!

Well, kinda, at least I'm no longer überbusy saving the world from daedric lords or unjust trade (the trade being slightly more dangerous). Now I'll be able to chill once again with the best community on the web. You.

*Bofra grabs a big pint and starts to slice big chunks of chocolate cake for everyone*

It's on me tonight!

Age of Empires III was not crap... Def not as good as II but it was great fun none-the-less. I wished the units would of stood a bit closer so i could of had that volley feel but..

Rise of Nations is undoutably the BEST rts I've ever played. That and the expansion. It was so fecking awesome. and still is.. if I could find it.. . Rise of Legends is great fun but its missing that feel that RoN had.

BLIZZARD, THE BEST GAME DESINGING COMPANY EVER (besides bethesda). i have pretty much all of their games. i have warcraft 1 through world of. i have starcraft and the brood war expansion pack. i am a huge blizzard fan

Yes same here. I even have Lost Vikings and Darkthorne. The latter wasn't very good...

I caved and checked out spore, holy crap!

Lets build a temple to spore and worship it!!!

we are not the only ones that see spore for it's grandeur. After E3 it's recieved four nomination for the Game Critics awards in the following categories: Best of Show, Best Original Game, Best Simulation Game, and Best PC Game.

exciting eh.

So true about Diablo ... as far as I can remember, Diablo 1 was the game to start everybody playing MMORPG's, wasn't it? Who doesn't know of Tyreal? I never did play the secret cow level, but everytime Cain & I go to pay in person at our RoadRunner Cable company - he has me go "moo, moo. moo, moo.." with him as we go through the ropes of the waiting line! Not exactly sure why. lol


Geonox, I love playing Lineage and that is one of the prettiest graphics and characters and armor of any game I've played. I love the white elves & dark elves the best, although my little female dwarf is just adorable. Lineage has just enough of the Anime style blended with realism to make it work in America and Korea where it was made. The reason that the game keeps alerting you when you've played for an hour and suggests that you take a break is that Korea is supposed to be the most wired country in the world and those kids who died playing video games at the internet cafes who didn't pause for food or rest for the equivalent of several days straight. Now that's too too serious about gaming!!



Hilarious HyPNO! Sadly probably true.

And I still gotta check out Spore ... that and the Poser program. I wanna give that a try too.

Or maybe someone should put up a "waiting4spore.com" site .

However, I try not to hype too much, I don't want to be dissapointed again.

Amen. I'm never going to let myself get hyped up ever again.

You mean like Oblivion?
Yeah, you're right. I guess me neither.I will just wait and see.
Spore is coming out in 2007 anyway

Why are you talking about these boring games?

The next interesting game to come out is Fallout 3. I don't say that because I'm a Bethsoft fanboy (I'm not) - otherwise I'd have to cheer for their Star Trek games too, which I don't - but rather because I love Fallout. I've only discovered them recently but have played both parts excessively. And I've heard a few things about Fallout 3 and how it'll work and stuff, so I am a bit hyped. I'm also anxious, as I can't yet see how an isometric game with turn based combat can be successfully transplanted into a first person perspective with real time combat (or so I believe). I guess we'll see.

We're also thinking about doing a site about that, but nothing's decided yet; and from what I understand, the game is still quite a while away from being published.

A game caught my attention in PC Gamer mag, called Prey . I think it's a first person shooter but it's about a native American guy trying to protect his gf & himself from a biomechanical alien spaceship that is stripmining the planet for human meals. Something like that. Supposed to be alot of weird gravitational and other effects.
Anyone heard anything else about this?

I doubt it, since in Diablo 1 you could only have 4 people playing in one session. I played it a lot in single player, and then I tryed online: Not the same feeling. While I was working hard to create my char, everybody was using a ''duplicating technique''. Just throw an item to the ground, click to pick it up, and at the moment picking it, left click on your potion. And you duplicated the item. So everybody was having top rated items. So unfair, and I think that glitch was never fixed.

Cow level? I think you open the portal to cow level by puting the Wirt's leg in Horadric Cube. Then a bunch of cows attack you with scythes. Hillarius!

Boring games? FYI, those games are legendary. Something I could play today, and not get bored. Man I swear, older games completly own todays games. Nowdays, all the effort is thrown on graphics instead of gameplay, for sake of younger audience. Just look at Oblivion. Soon, Baldur's Gate 3 development will start, but I'm unsure will it be as good as BGII. And please, don't get hyped for Fallout 3. We saw that Bethesda is capable of dumbing down games, so it would be wise not to get your hopes too high. But if ib comes out good: even better...

Scary-Bunny/Cat boss is right. Fallout 3 is going to be far better than Spore. Personally I think that the next game that's going to rock is Medieval Total War 2, but we'll just put that aside...

Fallout 2 was the first game I spent more than a day, non-stop, playing. I ate at the PC. I drank at the PC. I only went to pee whilst my man was walking on the insanely huge map.

Fallout and Fallout 2 have so much promise. At first I thought 'this is just isometric Mad Max', but once you get into the desparation of the towns just trying to survive, you begin to get emersed. And then you've got the faction battles that trully feel important. Ignoring the Mutants, the Brotherhood of Steel, the US Secret Service, there were all the little factions too. Who to side with in Reno? Should you destroy or control Jet production? Who do you side with in Redding - Redding, Vault City, Reno or NCR? The battle between the Chinese and the Scientologists? Do you help Ghouls or destroy them? Boulder Hills - worth it or worthless? What about the creepy farm in Modoc, or the excitement of exploring a busted vault? And Tandi! Once she was a stupid mook of a kid, now she's an old lady with a crazy empire under her belt!

Plus there was the little features. The perks that had a sense of humour. The blissful 'bloody mess', where all your enemies automatically died in the most ludicrous and gory way possible.

THAT is a classic game, with real, meaningful depth. Never mind Baldurs Gate 2, Fallout 2 is the pinnacle of RPG excellence. Now, I think that, seeing as how Bethesda got that 'we must make things look really, really good' bug out of their system, with Fallout 3 you are going to get Oblivion graphics with Morrowind gameplay (seeing as how it appears I missed much by not playing it), all in a fantastic post-apocalyptic universe. Bring that baby on!

Ah ofcourse! Fallout is the second best game in my list, after MW. So obviously I'm very anxious about F3, however, I'm a bit doubtful on the fact that it seems it will be 3D.. I wonder if that's really a good idea..

Another game I'm looking forward to is Gothic 3. I only played Gothic 2 before, but it rocked.

Foster: I've played tons of games for more than a day non-stop You've heard of lan-parties? Well, I do agree though that F2 gets you immersed in a way no other game has done before (except F1 ), so I understand how it could be your first.

Calm down dude, it's not a competition. I'm sorry that my first all-night gaming experience took place when I was at the ripe age of 17, and that I never was able to get past those pesky things like going out to play football or bike ride with friends, going to school or sleeping (same thing?), before that.

I've never had a LAN party. In fact the most multiplayer I've ever been is playing Unreal Tournament and Championship Manager with my housemates via LAN cables. Fact is though, that I'm antisocial and a really bad loser, so I don't enjoy playing multiplayer games. The only exception is playing against my brother on his X-Box, because that's totally different. He always beats me, but we get to insult/punch each other, and that makes it far more satisfying.

Oh, I know it's not a competition, didn't think of it that way.

And regarding LAN-parties, actually, on many I've been to single-player games aren't that rare. In fact in a small LAN with a couple of friends we played Conan the Barbarian paralell, so that we "waited" for each other to finish it as if it was co-op, but in fact we were playing single-player . Quite fun I must say.

Two more tests down, only 3 to go. HUZZAH!
Had geography and maths today. Geography was a breeze, my teacher told me a after my maths test that i did very well in it.

Maths was just evil. Methinks i got a D or maybe a low C at best

Rainer never really failed at any of his year end-exams, or got lower than 70%.

...yet

I'm not sure about Fallout 3, or 2, or 1.. Never heard of the series at all.

If you back sometime about feb, I posted a thread with the anoucement of Medieval Total War the Second.

<----I r teh uber geek when it comes to that stuff.

YO! I'm actully looking forward to Hellgate London.


*"SLURP"* (Mmmmm... Jamacain roast)


The company that is developing it is made out of a lot of Blizzard renegades and what was mostly Blizzard north. It might become known as the next Diablo.

*"MUNCH"* (Thanks for the choc. cake)

They even said that the closest you can imagene it is if you crossed Diablo 2 With Half Life 2.

FPS RPG With custemizable guns and random generated levels?

HELLL YYYYEEEAAAAA!!!!

Hallo there! Back from Stockholm, where I......yup it´s the truth....I´ve played xbox 360! It was this happening going on, concerning football, tournaments for young ppl, xbox-competitions and other funny stuff. One of the sponsors was xbox 360, so hey had set up about 50 xbox360-units and you were allowed to try them out with different games......nope, not Oblivion but the video was played at big screens....

Oh it was rather funny.....but i had to convince my son who was also with me that he won´t get a xbox360 just yet.....even thouigh they had an offer consisting of a console includeing wireless hand-controls and Oblivion at the nice price of 450 euro! phew!

Then I want to say congrats to all of you who passed your exams! yay!

Stomach Ache and Doomed....wish you all the best......


*chocolate chip cookies on me*

Please mom..... I'll be a good boy forever!

Was it something like that?

Well actually he´s a sensible boy......it didn´t take that much to comvince him!

a little tric i like to use when i want something is if she refuses i will just pretend that im really depresses and grumpy and crap until she says ok fine we'll get it. but i only think it worked when i was younger because she doesnt seem to fall for it anymore. all i hear now id get a job you lazy s!@#.

"edit" meant to put is instead of i at the end

Bofra, my hubby Cain shares your love of Gothic II. He advises you to get Gothic I because it explains the whole story of Gothic II. It's 'bout impossible to find in stores but can be ordered online.... ebay is how he got it. It's worth it. And he also encourages Night of the Raven "Naght der Robin" (something like that) expansion with Gothic II .... if you don't already have it.

{{{was amazed by the house of prostitution scene in Gothic ... can't remember if it was in I or II. Don't want to ask about that or he might not let me print it. Glad no one can read this but us ... lol }}}

Good thing I bought those implants so my eyes are adjusted to read gray.

Ahahaha ... you are so funny Doom. I know you can't read grey on gray.

Minque!! Welcome back home ... I knew you'd have fun in Sweden, but playing on xbox 360!? Come, come - are you trying to betray our generation? Making us look like funlovers instead of old fuddyduddies? lololol

Sound like good that your son is so understanding. I think his best deployment would be to say "Mama, remember how much fun YOU had on the 360? We could both play it, have tournaments even." <---- For Minque's son's eyes only.

Ibis: well, I'm kinda out of cash for the moment so Gothic I will have to wait, I was considering buying it earlier but I didn't.. And ah, the prostitution, it was cool, but my honorable Paladin wouldn't just sink that low. But I had my mercenary for that =)

Minque, so you were in Stockholm, cool, we might have met eachother accidently . I was in Stockholm all of last week but I didn't play X360, I don't touch that kind of stuff.. What do they call it... consoles? .

PS. Ibis: who is "he" that cannot read Gray?

Okay, I know you lot are typing something in some kind of magic ink or something, but all I can is '...' at the beginning of sentences and 'he that cannot read'. I know you lot are up to something, and it reeks of something sinister.

I'm watching you. Just...not watching all of what you write.

Hehe maybe it's just my computer or something, but even though i have grey as the background thing i can still read every word they type in grey

Oh and i had my biology test today. It was simple, but it was awful having to sit around for an hour and 15 minutes with nothing to do, becuase we get 2 hours to do the test and i finished in 45 minutes lol

nah wolfie t's not just yours. I can read the gray text perfectly as well. I am either assuming it's their monitor or they are pretending it's something it isn't.

I hear you on the biology test, I always finished mine early. best of luck on the rest of your exams.

I can read the gray perfectly aswell, that's what I wondered why Ibis wrote in gray, but it seems someone cannot read it, Foster . Have you tried highlighting the "empty" areas Foster?

Ah, speaking of exams.. I have 10 more days and then I'm unemployed, God I wish the days could pass a little bit faster.. Just one more essay and I'm done... Well, I'm actually starting to work on July but atleast no more University and studying for a while..

Well today I found out I'm having my last speech exam or what you can call it in english on Friday, I will see what subject I go up too on next Tuesday and tomorrow till friday including monday we won't have to go to school..

... but of course I'm going to Rome on thursday and coming home on Monday But it's cool

Also having a conversation on another forum about music, where a guy said Lordi was actually heavy metal and in the coversation I also added that Rage rapes Linkin Park since it's a lot of LP fans there...

I most give that guy an example to listen to Susperia - Chemistry, which is pure norwegian metal and compare that song to this so called heavy metal Lordi songs

I be back! I just beat Oblivion last night, yes i'm slow, but that was awsome. I should be on more, taking into account that i don't have school anymore.

how were you all?

*grumble* At least you have Oblivion.

But Rainer has Kingdom Hearts 2 to keep him going untill he finds more work